Hi Rohith, We have an experimental idea of doing periodic backup in our app. It involves a combination of GAE APIs to achieve it. The following are the steps we used:
1) Identify the entities that need to be backup. This is because downloading all entities will incur unnecessary costs. To do this, we created identifying log messages for creation/modification/deletion of the entities in our app. This allows us to look through the logs and retrieve entities that are recently modified. 2) Create a cron job on the local machine that looks through the app engine logs for let's say the past 5 minutes. The logs can be retrieved remotely using the GAE log api. 3) Once the entities are identified, you can download them via the app engine's remote api, which allows you to remotely access the datastore to download the individual entities. 4) Save the data of these downloaded entities in a .csv format or any other format that you require. 5) The csv file can also be uploaded to a local host so that you can view them in a local application. This can be done using the bulkloader in the python SDK, which can also be applied to Java applications. Hope these might be of some help. We are still experimenting with this idea, but we are able to periodically retrieve the entities over 5 minute intervals and upload them to a local machine. We can then view the data on the local server as though we are on the live server. Best regards, Shawn On Friday, 22 August 2014 01:54:14 UTC+8, Rohith D Vallam wrote: > > Hello, > > I have some data stored in the Google Datastore. I have two entities in > the Google Datastore for this purpose. I was wondering if there is a way to > backup these Datastore entries periodically to my local machines ? I > searched the internet and could some answers related to using task queues, > cron jobs, etc but none of them offered a complete, working solution to > this problem. It would be great if someone could share their ideas about > how to periodically backup the datastore to local machines. > > Thanks and Regards, > Rohith > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
